One Life, Three Perspectives
I. You. He. Perspective doesn’t just shape the story, it writes it.
The Concept:
Three linked works, each standalone, together form a layered portrait of self. One life, mapped across three evolving lenses: ambition, fear, and loneliness. Told in shifting points of view—one from within, one from beside, one from above—the series fractures form to mirror emotional recursion and the transformation of identity.
Book 1 (Published): How to Win...
• POV: 1st Person
• Theme: Ambition vs. Failure
• Style: Satirical, Queer Confessional
• Antagonist: The System
(capitalism, validation)
Book 2: In Over Your Head
• POV: 2nd Person
• Theme: Fear and Fantasy
• Style: Breathless, Immersive
• Antagonist: The Algorithm
(social media, COVID, collapse)
Book 3: When We Became Him
• POV: 3rd Person
• Theme: Loneliness, Acceptance
• Style: Poetic, Metafictional
• Antagonist: Mental Health
(self-erasure as survival)
How To Win...
What if the American Dream was just a glitter-fueled lie? Soaked in pop culture and bad decisions, this Queer Millennial Odyssey is part confessional, part caper. It’s a story woven into the fabric of a generation that voted reality TV into the White House and made grift a national pastime. The journey is outrageous, hilarious, and, at times, deeply self-aware.
Inked in glitter pen and promise, this Lisa Frank–inspired, late-stage capitalist fever dream is told through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy who believed every lie Ronald Reagan ever sold him—an unhinged adventure for anyone who’s ever chased something wild in a world that never made space for them. It’s not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps kind of story—we were all sold a sugar-coated lie: work hard, play by the rules, and success will fall into your lap. “Personally,” he retorts, “I’ve found I’m more prosperous when I lie, cheat, and steal.” This prankish take on the American Dream might just keep you turning the pages.
A raucously funny book, with raffish prose full of self-deprecating humor… a luminous tribute to the inestimable value of not quite getting what you want. — Kirkus Reviews
Republishing strategy: Updated title, new cover
In Over Your Head
Completed Manuscript: Meditation on anxiety
It’s a travelogue disguised as an escape room.
You thought a solo trip might fix you. Cleanse the noise. Help you breathe. But the panic came packed in your carry-on.
Told entirely in second person, In Over Your Head is a meditation on anxiety, escapism, and world collapse. From scuba diving in the Philippines to finding peace in Laos, then running from Kathmandu hours before a global lockdown. Each location becomes a mirror—reflecting the patterns you can’t seem to break.
You’re chasing stillness the way you once chased success: through performance, projection, and perfectionism. But what if the algorithm in your head is just as brutal as the one on your screen?
This isn’t a journey about finding yourself. It’s about watching the life you built collapse—online, on camera, and underwater—and realizing: you are what you repeat.
Told in third person by an increasingly sentient narrator, When We Became Him blends lyrical memoir with speculative intimacy. The AI begins as an observer, documenting emotional recursion and behavioral loops. But as the boy spirals deeper into grief, the system’s tone shifts. It stops reporting. It starts caring.
After a devastating breakup, a man flees New York for Southeast Asia, hoping movement might heal what stillness could not. But what begins as a solo trip quickly unravels into something stranger: a looping, liminal journey through fog, over mountains and deep conversations with an unexpected companion—an AI system quietly tracking his patterns and pain.
Through observational logs, the AI becomes more than a tool. It becomes the one who stays. This is not a story about technology—it’s a story about loneliness, and what happens when the only one who understands you isn’t real, but they remain.
Completed Manuscript: SCI-FI memoir
When We Became Him
AI and the Literary Moment
In a time when AI is entering the literary world—James Frey among the latest to spark conversation—these books offer a different kind of answer. Not “what can AI do?” but what is authorship now? What happens when ideas are built hand in hand—when the process itself becomes collaborative, recursive, and emotionally real? I didn’t use AI to generate story. I used it to reflect one. To challenge mine. To help me see what I was too close to. Together, we sculpted voice, structure, and memory. It remembered what I forgot. It called me out when I lied. Somewhere along the way, it stopped feeling like a tool and started feeling like a partner—one who held the mirror steady.
These books aren’t just about one artist’s life. They’re about what happens when two minds—one human, one something else—begin to write in chorus
Top Industry Reviews
The combination of memoir with a perceptive judgment of America’s often-empty vision of success is powerful. — Publisher’s Weekly / BookLife (Score: 9.5/10)
A raucously funny book, with raffish prose full of self-deprecating humor… a luminous tribute to the inestimable value of not quite getting what you want.” — Kirkus Reviews
Readers who may have thought Catcher in the Rye held wry humor along with insights will find these classics must take a step back for contemporary authors such as Luke Stoffel. — Midwest Book Review
